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Authenticating the signatory

Nelly Reifler just wanted documents authenticated, but the rabbi-turned-notary looked at her signature and pronounced her a reincarnation of Eve.

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Russell Banks on Colin Channer’s moral fable

Colin Channer’s The Girl With the Golden Shoes centers on a girl who becomes an object of suspicion and gets kicked out of her fishing village after teaching herself to read. “She’d not been led to reading by a great ambition — that was something reading had produced. But this wasn’t easy to explain.” Setting out for the city with . . .

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